Creating this pocket-sized private garden<\/a> was an organic process. It was a family affair that involved regular get togethers with her father and her brother, who erected the pergola<\/a>, built the boundary fencing, and laid the path and timber paving tiles for the patio.<\/p>\n The tiny plot (just 12m by 4m) is behind her father\u2019s terraced house \u2013 a typical Victorian red-brick building, overlooked from all angles.\u00a0 Although the original boundaries of low brick walls offer little privacy, they partially allow an opportunity to \u2018borrow\u2019 next-door\u2019s shrubs<\/a>. To bring about more privacy, the walls were fitted with screens of slatted pine timber providing height and seclusion balanced by a sense of spaciousness from light filtering through the slats. Here are key tips on how to create a private garden.<\/p>\n Head to our full feature to discover more about the garden<\/a>.<\/p>\n An enclosed pergola<\/a> with a roof and sides helps to minimise being overlooked from behind, above and either side of the property. If situated away from the house, as here, it also creates a destination to encourage journeying through the garden.<\/p>\n Planting tall grasses<\/a>, such as Calamagrostis <\/em>x acutiflora<\/em> \u2018Karl Foerster\u2019, in front of the pergola helps to create the feeling of a cosy den and a sense of enclosure.<\/p>\n Slatted timber screens raise the height of the boundary walls enclosing the garden while allowing light to filter through.<\/p>\n A careful choice of plants intensifies the sense of privacy in the urban environment: taller salix along the boundaries, medium-sized evergreen shrubs and small, slow-growing By Daisy Bowie-Sell Published: Wednesday, 06 July 2022 at 12:00 am Ula Maria\u2019s award winning garden for Tatton Park in 2017 found its final home at her father\u2019s small garden plot in Northampton. Creating this pocket-sized private garden was an organic process. It was a family affair that involved regular get togethers with her father […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":12619,"template":"","categories":[1],"acf":{"readingTimeMinutes":"2"},"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2022\/07\/creating-a-private-garden.jpg",1024,683,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2022\/07\/creating-a-private-garden-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2022\/07\/creating-a-private-garden-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2022\/07\/creating-a-private-garden-768x512.jpg",768,512,true],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2022\/07\/creating-a-private-garden.jpg",800,534,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2022\/07\/creating-a-private-garden.jpg",1024,683,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2022\/07\/creating-a-private-garden.jpg",1024,683,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/gardensillustrated\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"By Daisy Bowie-Sell Published: Wednesday, 06 July 2022 at 12:00 am Ula Maria\u2019s award winning garden for Tatton Park in 2017 found its final home at her father\u2019s small garden plot in Northampton. Creating this pocket-sized private garden was an organic process. It was a family affair that involved regular get togethers with her father…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/gardensillustrated\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/12618"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/gardensillustrated\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/gardensillustrated\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/gardensillustrated\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/gardensillustrated\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/gardensillustrated\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/gardensillustrated\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"""\"](\""https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/18\/2022\/07\/ulamarianorthampton318-988d7e7.jpg?quality=90&resize=619%2C413"\" "\\"\"\"\\"\/")
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